Dangerous Assignment: The Suspicious Cylinder

Transcribe. Dangerous assignment. Starring Brian Donlevay as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce.

They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment is going to wind up with my life being saved by a ghost. Morning, Commissioner.

Ruth said you had an assignment for me. That's right, Steve. Well, what do I go chasing after this time? We already have it. What do you mean? This dictating machine, sir. I don't get it.

I don't get it. That's a point, neither do I. Listen, I'll pay it for you. A survey of European industry for the first three months of 1951 reveals an overall decrease of 10% in the total man hours lost due to the common cold, as compared to a similar period of 1950.

A detailed statistics are as follows. Front? That's enough to give you the idea, Steve. The rest of the cylinder is merely a collection of statistics on the individual European countries. Well, three years for the enemies of the common cold, but what's all that got to do with me?

You see anything secret about this information? Of course not. And why would somebody off an American $5,000 to smuggle this cylinder out of the country and take it to Europe? Well, that's yours. That makes sense, does it?

Oh. Who is trying to smuggle it out? A young student named Demerson. He's waiting in the next room to tell you all he knows about it, which apparently isn't much. Where was he arrested? He wasn't.

He turned himself in when he became convinced there was something fishy going on. I see. Where Demerson get the cylinder? From the secretary of the man who recorded it. She's in custody, but we haven't been able to get any information out of her.